Mark Willson Rose (5 March 1924 – 8 March 2008) was a New Democratic Party politician in

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, active on both the federal and provincial levels. He was a professor by career. He first became a member of the House of Commons of Canada at the

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electoral district which he won in the 1968 federal election. Rose made an earlier, unsuccessful attempt at the Fraser Valley riding in 1965. He served two terms in the

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and

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s before being defeated by Robert Wenman of the Progressive Conservative party in the 1974 election. Rose returned to Canadian Parliament in the 1979 federal election with a victory at the Mission—Port Moody electoral district. After a term in the

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, he was re-elected in 1980 but resigned from his seat before completing his term in the

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to campaign in the British Columbia provincial election. He won his campaign for the

Coquitlam-Moody Coquitlam-Moody was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia from 1979 to 1986. Its predecessor riding was Coquitlam and its successor was the Coquitlam-Maillardville riding. For other Greater Vancouver area ri ...

riding and was a member of that province's Legislative Assembly until 1991.

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* 1924 births 2008 deaths British Columbia New Democratic Party MLAs Members of the House of Commons of Canada from British Columbia New Democratic Party MPs {{BritishColumbia-MLA-stub